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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1751
"The imagination is thereby kept within bounds, and under due subjection to sense and reason."
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Date: 1751
"We first consider the nature of that act of the mind, which is termed belief; of which the immediate foundation is the testimony of our senses."
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Date: 1762
"Under the discipline of society, these passions are subdued, and in a good measure eradicated. In their place succeed the kindly affections, which, meeting with all encouragement, take possession of the mind and govern our whole actions."
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